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Artist
David Paul Mesler
12+ albums
jazzpianoAvant-Gardeexperimentalgammarec
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OVERVIEW David Paul Mesler is a multi-genre artist whose ensembles play over 125 dates a year. An award-winning pianist and Emmy-nominated composer, David uses his classical training and 25 years as a professional jazz musician to explore jazz-classical hybrids in unconventional and dramatic ways. Virtuosic in the extreme, versatile in the extreme, and consistently inspired, David is now considered Northwest piano royalty and has been compared favorably to McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, and Bud Powell. ON SAME BILL AS David has performed on the same bill as Diane Schuur, The Manhattan Transfer, Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Burt Bacharach, Lionel Richie, Debbie Gibson, Dinah Shore, Andy Williams, Barry Manilow, Sister Sledge, The Jackson 5, Skitch Henderson, Philip Glass, Lyle Lovett, and Bruce Hornsby. He has also played on the same bill as comedians Bob Hope, Victoria Jackson, Harvey Feirstein, Art Linklater, Senor Wences, Bob Eubanks, Garrison Keillor, and The Capitol Steps. PLAYED FOR David has played for three Presidents -- Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, as well as a number of those running for the Oval Office -- Al Gore, John Kerry, and John Edwards. He has played for governors from across the country, and every Washington State Governor since the early 1960's. David has also played for Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Harrison Ford, Julie Harris, Tom Brokaw, Bill Gat
